Hello folks,

I recently acquired a used 4.3 GB SCSI internal hard drive, which I have
installed in a disused IIsi, hoping to give this machine new life and to
create a more capacious NetBSD system than the one I've currently got
squeezed onto a tiny 80MB hard drive in my Classic II. The hard drive is
healthy and functional, but too large to be mounted at startup. SCSIProbe
identifies the drive, but won't mount it; Apple's HD SC Setup, which I used
to set up my other NetBSD disk, doesn't see the drive at all. Recent
versions of Drive Setup will happily mount and partition the drive, but it
warns that the system software won't recognize a disk this size without
multiple partitions, and furthermore it won't allow any of those partitions
to be ProDos or A/UX or other non-Macintosh formats. So I'm in a bit of a
bind.

I've tried a couple of solutions, including booting the IIsi from external
disks running various flavors of System 7 (7.1, 7.5.1, 7.5.3, 7.6) with and
without Pseud040 installed (which I thought might expedite matters); in
most of these configurations I can get the internal hard drive mounted to
the desktop, but upon restart I'm always stuck with a flashing question
mark. Drive Setup maintains that the problem is in a limitation of the
currently installed system software, but I suspect that 7.6 should be
perfectly capable of handling a disk of this size, and that the probelm is
actually elsewhere. Can anyone suggest a workaround--a patch or a clever
trick which will let my IIsi use this magnificent large disk? I'd be very
grateful for your insights.

Thanks,
Beth